{"id":2843,"date":"2024-04-11T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pyrolave.com\/lave-co-6\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:47:58","slug":"lave-co-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyrolave.com\/en\/lave-co-6\/","title":{"rendered":"LAVE & CO. #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dear Designer, Dear Architect, Dear Reader,
\nAn exceptional situation calls for an exceptional issue… To transport and inspire you and to inform you that we remain open and that you can count on us.
\nContemporary art, iconic furniture and other displays… Volvic enamelled lava stone – as you have never before seen it – is now showing in this explosive autumn edition!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Brutalists\u2026
\n<\/strong>Mischievousness and colours for these strange lava stone and concrete figures<\/h2>\n

Nantes city in France. A green line drawn on the ground. A trail of 12km across the city marking the way to monuments, art works, remarkable features and other little-known treasures of its heritage. This is the cultural attraction devised and developed by\u00a0Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes<\/a>, responsible for promoting the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2020 and for the 9th edition, the company is continuing to enrich its permanent collections. It is in the heart of the new Polaris neighbourhood \u2013 on the site of former industrial warehouses, in the east of the Brossette district \u2013 recognisable by its high-rise blocks and its huge public spaces whose rehabilitation was entrusted to the\u00a0LAN agency<\/a>, that the Brutalists\u2019 sculpture is on display.<\/p>\n

To play with the verticality of the site,\u00a0Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil\u00a0<\/a>created a geometrical and coloured composition, appearing like a bulky picture on place Cl\u00e9mence Lefeuvre, in front of the Vatel hotel business school. Motivated by the desire to combine the duality of raw concrete – for its \u201cuntamed, natural and primitive\u201d look as described by Le Corbusier \u2013 with a precious material – enamelled lava stone \u2013 the artists have created these mischievous and coloured giants, that they have called The Brutalists, in reference to the eponymous architectural movement of the 1950-70s.<\/p>\n

Unknown by the duo of artists for this kind of use, \u201cPyrolave enamelled lava stone<\/a>\u00a0is a revelation<\/em>\u201d, Martine Feipel revealed. \u201cOriginally, we had envisaged using ceramic for the project, but the properties of lava stone and the vibrations of the enamels immediately won us over. Colour is the main element of our work. Using this material, the final sculpture is exactly as we imagined it: a living picture like a painting, which fits seamlessly into the public space, and which could become a permanent feature.<\/em>\u00a0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For this complex and daring project, Pyrolave craftsmen had to combine extra-large slabs of lava stone with precision-cutting of different angles, control of the enamel and anticipation of dilation phenomena during the firing process so that each piece would fit the concrete structure to perfection. In the initial phase,\u00a0the master enamellers<\/a>\u00a0worked on Pantone references to offer new kinds of colour to obtain the pastel, bright and dark hues sought by the artists.<\/p>\n

More than simply contemporary works to contemplate during cultural tours, these stone figures have been designed as a vector of social ties within an inclusive architecture. The sculptures are equipped with ovens to bring the neighbourhood\u2019s residents together to experience wood fire cooking.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Photo credit : Martin Argyroglo, Philippe Piron<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Similitudes
\n<\/strong>by Pierre Charpin<\/h2>\n

Are you a fan of iconic furniture? Here are Translation coffee tables and Fraction side tables imagined and designed by Pierre Charpin and displayed at Galerie Kreo in Paris. Lava stone in lava stone… outstanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEach coffee table is the outcome of precise combinatory operations. Inside a basic shape-frame (a square, a rectangle), an identical shape is repeated but with a significant difference: the second time, the table edge comprises one of the sides. Each shape has its own colour, thereby activating the \u201cdifference and repetition\u201d composition principle. Finally, combining enamelled lava stone with metal gives rise to a variety of textures and intensities which creates a contrasted marquetry where the fine cracking of the enamel gives the top a vibrant look, a \u201cskin with moving reflections\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pierre Charpin \u2013\u00a0www.pierrecharpin.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Fifty shades of enamelled lava stone
\n<\/strong>at Architect@Work Paris 2020<\/h2>\n

Because lava is much more than a kind of stone, we adorned it with a myriad of reflections and facets in our dedicated corner at the architectural fair in Paris.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Out goes the clich\u00e9 of enamelled lava stone reserved for the kitchen countertop of our \u2018trendy\u2019 great aunty Claudine! In comes new kinds of mural decoration, for both in and outdoors, as well as imaginative vanity tops for bathrooms and hotels as well as reworked psychedelic display plinths dedicated to retail and interior decoration.<\/p>\n

To furnish a private or corporate entrance lobby. To play with the light or the path of the sun. To offer new perspectives to architects and designers and give a new look to front walls, Pyrolave has developed 2 concepts around iridescent colours:<\/p>\n